The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Steven Cost As leaders, ...

Some of history’s most notable and successful leaders were known for their intuition: Abraham Lincoln, Oprah Winfrey and Albert Einstein, to name a few. But going with your gut doesn’t work for all ...

This post was co-written by Justine Saavedra and Tchiki Davis. Intuition can be a difficult concept to define—it is sometimes described as the sixth human sense. It happens when your brain quickly ...

Thanks to Malcolm Gladwell and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, we’ve all been sternly warned about the risks of employing intuition when making important decisions. In his book Blink, ...

I was recently asked what advice I might give to aspiring business leaders that could help them make purposeful decisions. After giving this question serious consideration, I recalled a Harvard ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about leveraging neuroscience to create remarkable leadership. This article is more than 6 years old. Oprah has it. Steve ...

Steve Jobs once remarked, “Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.” What is intellect? What is intuition? Although there is no definition that completely ...

This Q&A is part of Observer’s Expert Insights series, where industry leaders, innovators and strategists distill years of experience into direct, practical takeaways and deliver clarity on the issues ...